Reza Mirkarimi's “The Daughter” wins top prize at Moscow Film FestJuly 2, 2016 - 13:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi picked up the top Golden George award for The Daughter at the closing Thursday, June 30 of the 38th edition of the Moscow International Film Festival. Farhad Aslani won best actor, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. British director Stephen Frears received an award for outstanding contribution to world cinema, an honor the festival also bestowed on Spanish writer, director, actor and producer Carlos Saura and veteran Russian director Sergey Solovyov, whose new film Wild Pigeon had also been in competition, though it failed to pick up any prizes. In other awards at the festival's gala closing ceremony at Moscow's central Rossiya cinema, a special jury prize went to Bulgarian director Radoslav Spassov for The Singing Shoes. Denmark's Puk Grasten picked up best director for Danish-US coproduction 37. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | European Parliament to discuss repression in Azerbaijan The European Parliament will discuss repression of civil society in Azerbaijan on April 24 PACE wants concessions from Azerbaijan to accept Baku back A PACE co-rapporteur said that Azerbaijani authorities must make certain concessions so that the country can return to PACE. Cyprus parliament honors Armenian genocide victims Acting House President Zacharias Koulias noted that April 24 marks the “black anniversary” of the Armenian genocide. Armenia PM, France envoy discuss regional matters Issues related to the consistent development of Armenia-France cooperation were discussed. |